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Title: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 06, 2007, 03:49:01 PM
My girlfriend has been interning for a post production house for over six months. All they ever ask her to do is get lunch ( and never get her any) and clean their dishes. She has only once sat in on an editing session. On monday they asked her to clean their fridge. WTF maybe its just me but what kind of internship is that?

I realize you have to pay your dues and all but shes not a fucking maid.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: enjoy bell woods on June 06, 2007, 03:50:00 PM
She can quit if she doesn't like it.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on June 06, 2007, 03:51:12 PM
Sounds like she's their production assistant.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Robo on June 06, 2007, 03:53:54 PM
So what is she doing when she isn't fetching lunch or cleaning dishes?
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 06, 2007, 03:55:31 PM
Sounds like she's their production assistant.

Typical production assistants get paid $175 a day in LA.

Plus, im pretty sure there isnt such things as post production assistants.


She did quite, It just makes me mad at the nevrve of them. Cleaning out a fridge can be worse than cleaning a fucking toilet.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 06, 2007, 03:56:27 PM
So what is she doing when she isn't fetching lunch or cleaning dishes?
Pretty much just chilled in the office. Reading or something.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Mupepe on June 06, 2007, 05:24:48 PM
erm, at most places internship means "be our bitch and you get to put on your resume that you have experience."

she should have stayed  rofl
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Robo on June 06, 2007, 05:57:42 PM
erm, at most places internship means "be our bitch and you get to put on your resume that you have experience."

she should have stayed  rofl

This is why, if you don't use an internship program through your university (these are generally monitored), you should try to find paying internships or, ideally, ones that pay fairly well for the work inclined.  Unpaid interns are far more likely to be put to work doing things like the above, subservient bullshit.  Also knowing your duties before signing on could be useful, although I'm sure in the case of FoC's cum dumpster, her employer didn't outright tell her she'd be the company's kitchen bitch.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: BlackMage on June 06, 2007, 06:05:12 PM
the title of kitchen bitch is reserved for my future wife (Cyanista).
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 06, 2007, 06:08:07 PM
erm, at most places internship means "be our bitch and you get to put on your resume that you have experience."

she should have stayed  rofl

She was the only female intern and she was the only one asked to clean up and wash dishes.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: TVC15 on June 06, 2007, 06:09:17 PM
Sounds like it was an appropriate internship for a female.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: BlackMage on June 06, 2007, 06:09:51 PM
Sounds like it was an appropriate internship for a female.

don't steal my thunder..
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: pollo on June 06, 2007, 06:10:27 PM
Sounds like it was an appropriate internship for a female.

OH SNAP!
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Mupepe on June 06, 2007, 06:11:25 PM
erm, at most places internship means "be our bitch and you get to put on your resume that you have experience."

she should have stayed  rofl

She was the only female intern and she was the only one asked to clean up and wash dishes.
then she was probably incapable of doing her real job
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: BlackMage on June 06, 2007, 06:14:34 PM
come back to me when they have the black intern picking cotton in the front lawn.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 06, 2007, 06:17:58 PM
come back to me when they have the black intern picking cotton in the front lawn.

 :lol :lol :lol

I'm going to plant cotton just so I can have a black  intern.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Yeti on June 06, 2007, 11:45:16 PM
the title of kitchen bitch is reserved for my future wife (Cyanista).

What happened to Dragona?
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: CrystalGemini on June 06, 2007, 11:53:30 PM
Is she paid?
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 07, 2007, 12:29:05 AM
Is she paid?

no
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on June 07, 2007, 01:02:08 AM
Plus one for self-respect, minus several million for future in the industry.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: bluemax on June 07, 2007, 01:28:52 PM
A friend of mine works as a PA for one of the networks (The one with survivor) and he does all kinds of stupid shit. At one point he was transporting around a car full of Survivor audition tapes, and I think he actually had to watch some of them too.

Total waste of a $40k a year education. He should have stuck with engineering.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on June 07, 2007, 01:49:11 PM
A friend of mine works as a PA for one of the networks (The one with survivor) and he does all kinds of stupid shit. At one point he was transporting around a car full of Survivor audition tapes, and I think he actually had to watch some of them too.

Total waste of a $40k a year education. He should have stuck with engineering.

That's normal for a PA though.

Cleaning a fridge is not.
Title: Re: Does this sound like a fair internship?
Post by: Himu on June 07, 2007, 02:12:18 PM
come back to me when they have the black intern picking cotton in the front lawn.

 :lol :lol :lol

I'm going to plant cotton just so I can have a black  intern.

Remind me to burn your house and cotton fields when you do.